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Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have emerged as valuable tools for sensing and polarizing spins. Motivated by potential applications in chemistry, biology, and medicine, we show that NV-based sensors are capable of detecting single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 M. Bruderer , P. Fernández-Acebal , R. Aurich , M. B. Plenio

The ability to perform nanoscale electric field imaging of elementary charges at ambient temperatures will have diverse interdisciplinary applications. While the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is capable of high-sensitivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 M. S. J Barson , L. M. Oberg , L. P. McGuinness , A. Denisenko , N. B. Manson , J. Wrachtrup , M. W. Doherty

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are a leading modality for magnetic sensing and imaging under ambient conditions. However, these sensors suffer from degraded performance due to paramagnetic impurities and regions of stress in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Connor Roncaioli , Connor Hart , Ronald Walsworth , Donald P. Fahey

Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have been used in recent years for a wide range of applications, from nano-scale NMR to quantum computation. These applications depend strongly on the efficient readout of the NV center's spin state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Idan Meirzada , Sigal A. Wolf , Alex Naiman , Uriel Levy , Nir Bar-Gill

The nitrogen vacancy center in diamond in its negative charge state is a promising candidate for quantum optic experiments that require single photon emitters. Important benefits of the NV center are its high brightness and photo-stability,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Philip P. J. Schrinner , Jan Olthaus , Doris E. Reiter , Carsten Schuck

In recent years, the field of quantum sensing has garnered increasing attention due to its potential to revolutionize various scientific and technological domains. Among the different quantum sensors, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 C. Munuera-Javaloy

We present a technique that uses an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to image magnetic fields with high spatio-temporal resolution and sensitivity. A focused laser beam is raster-scanned using an acousto-optic deflector…

Quantum technologies have seen a rapid developmental surge over the last couple of years. Though often overshadowed by quantum computation, quantum sensors show tremendous potential for widespread applications in chemistry and biology. One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-30 Robin D. Allert , Karl D. Briegel , Dominik B. Bucher

Spin ensembles of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are emerging as powerful spin-based sensors for magnetic, electric and thermal field imaging with high spatial and temporal resolution. Here we characterize the formation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-13 Tim R. Eichhorn , Claire A. McLellan , Ania C. B. Jayich

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have attracted considerable interest in sensing of weak magnetic fields, such as those created by biological systems. Detecting such feeble signals requires near-surface NV centers, to reduce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 R. Giri , C. Dorigoni , S. Tambalo , F. Gorrini , A. Bifone

Diamond quantum technologies based on color centers have rapidly emerged in the most recent years. The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center has attracted a particular interest, thanks to its outstanding spin properties and optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-15 Santiago Hernández-Gómez , Nicole Fabbri

Characterizing the local internal environment surrounding solid-state spin defects is crucial to harnessing them as nanoscale sensors of external fields. This is especially germane to the case of defect ensembles which can exhibit a complex…

Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are a platform for several important quantum technologies, including sensing, communication and elementary quantum processors. In this letter we demonstrate the creation of NV centers by implantation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 K. Groot-Berning , G. Jacob , C. Osterkamp , F. Jelezko , F. Schmidt-Kaler

Over the years, an enormous effort has been made to establish nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as easily accessible and precise magnetic field sensors. However, most of their sensing protocols rely on the application of bias…

Magnetic sensing technology has found widespread application in industries as diverse as transportation, medicine, and resource exploration. Such use cases often require highly sensitive instruments to measure the extremely small magnetic…

Quantum sensors based on the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond are rapidly advancing from scientific exploration towards the first generation of commercial applications. While significant progress has been made in developing suitable…

The spin readout of an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond can be realized by a photoconductive detection that is a complementary method to the optical detection of the NV electron spin magnetic resonance. Here, we…

Arrays of NV centers in the diamond have the potential in the fields of chip-scale quantum information processing and nanoscale quantum sensing. However, determining their orientations one by one is resource intensive and time consuming.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Xuerui Song , Fupan Feng , Chunxiao Cai , Guanzhong Wang , Wei Zhu , Wenting Diao , Chongdi Duan

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) colour centre in diamond is an important physical system for emergent quantum technologies, including quantum metrology, information processing and communications, as well as for various nanotechnologies, such as…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a solid-state spin defect that has been widely adopted for quantum sensing and quantum information processing applications. Typically, experiments are performed either with a single isolated NV…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Matthew Cambria , Saroj Chand , Caitlin Reiter , Shimon Kolkowitz